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15:46–16:20 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4915:49Frame at 15:5515:55Frame at 16:0916:09Frame at 16:1716:17

Play from 15:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 99–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing light-colored clothing, partially submerged or lying in water, face visible in frame 2 visible
  • standing, wearing dark pants and boots, visible from waist down in frame 1 visible
  • unseen, but audible audible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying or submerged in water in a rocky enclosure. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a person’s face, appearing distressed or unconscious. [frame:2]
  • A figure in light clothing is seen moving or being moved in the water. [frame:3]
  • A person in a hat and coat leans over the water, appearing to assist or inspect. [frame:4]
Seen
water [frame:1], rocky enclosure [frame:1], hat [frame:4], coat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: danger, rescue, human vulnerability; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces and actions, handheld or unstable camera movement suggested by blur and angle

A person is seen in a dim, rocky environment, partially submerged or lying in water, with another figure standing nearby. The scene includes a visible reaction of shock from an unseen speaker, as indicated by the transcript.

“Oh, my God.” 15:50 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Painted Hills (1951) at 15:49 (passage 15:46–16:20); US record: No renewal found

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